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Scientific American
October 2008
Barbara Juncosa |
Climate Change May be Sparking New and Bigger "Dead Zones" Climate change seems to be starving some waters of oxygen.   |
Geotimes
October 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Shifting Winds Churn up Dead Zone This past summer, fishermen off the Oregon coast hauled up their crab pots filled with dead crabs. Scientists say that extremely low levels of oxygen in the area's shallow ocean waters were to blame, and are now trying to understand exactly what drives the phenomenon. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Hurricanes Intensify Red Tides Off Gulf Four hurricanes hit Florida in 2004, dousing the state with some of its heaviest rainfall in more than three decades. All of that water, a team of researchers says, may have set the stage for a large "red tide" off the state's west-central coast in 2005. |
Geotimes
October 2003 |
Geophenomena New addition to the Aleutian family... Yellowstone geysers heat up... First dead zone forecast... etc. |
Geotimes
November 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Acid Rain Alters Coastal Waters Excess carbon dioxide, sulfur and nitrogen from fossil fuel burning, agricultural runoff and other human sources are changing ocean chemistry -- and that impact is especially pronounced along the coasts, new research suggests. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Swarzenski & Campbell |
Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico. |
Chemistry World
August 19, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Deepwater data suggests oil is sticking around New data collected by a submersible robotic laboratory provides insights into the magnitude and potential impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Ari Daniel Shapiro |
Remotely Piloted Underwater Glider Crosses the Atlantic Rutgers University's underwater vehicle successfully navigates an ocean |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sandra Upson |
Oil-Eating Microbes for Gulf Spill A Florida start-up thinks it can save the Gulf; experts doubt it |
Geotimes
May 2004
Sara Pratt |
Ocean Anoxia Researchers are using microfossils to date ocean anoxic events, or severe oxygen depletion in the ocean, back to 132 million years ago. The findings will open up several new avenues of inquiry including the impact of the global carbon cycle perturbation on the biosphere as a whole. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Jay Chapman |
Hurricanes' Green Thumb As coastal residents are geared up for this year's peak Atlantic hurricane season -- mid-August through October -- scientists are looking at past hurricanes to better understand what happens to the oceans in the wake of these whirlwind events. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Sara Pratt |
Red Tide Plagues Northeast The water has remained clear this summer as New England is experiencing the worst outbreak of red tide since 1972, which prompted the closure of shellfish beds from Maine to Martha's Vineyard. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Erico Guizzo |
Defense Contractors Snap Up Submersible Robot Gliders U.S. Navy contract stirs interest in propellerless autonomous underwater vehicles |
Scientific American
December 2008
Barbara Juncosa |
Stations in the Seas: Permanent Underwater Observatories Scientists envisage unmanned labs on the floor of the ocean to conduct experiments and monitor climate change |
Geotimes
February 2004 |
Call for ocean policy overhaul America needs a new ocean policy. That's the message coming out of several sessions at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences which focused on the health of America's oceans. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Ocean Management 101 In a recent report, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy calls for a uniform national policy on ocean research -- including management of coastal areas such as the West Coast. |
Science News
January 29, 2005
Janet Raloff |
'Harmless' Alga Indicted for Mussel Poisoning Over the past decade, scores of Europeans have been poisoned by eating mussels harvested at various sites along the coast of Ireland. although pesticides or other pollutants were at first suspected, this bout of food poisoning traced to a common planktonic alga. |
Science News
September 28, 2002
Janet Raloff |
State of U.S. Agro-ecosystems About one-quarter of the United States' land cover, excluding Alaska, is farmed. A massive new project has just assessed this and other food-producing environments, such as coastal waters, fresh waters, and rangelands, to tally factors contributing to health. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Jeff Howe |
Get Ready for Extreme Weather Robert Dalrymple, a coastal engineer at Johns Hopkins University, warns that the nation is woefully unprepared for natural disaster. Here is his three-point plan to prepare for the coming era of mayhem. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Hetherington et al. |
Quest for the Lost Land The search for early Americans is taking researchers to the coast of British Columbia, where a now-submerged landscape may hold clues to the first settlers' coastal migration. |
Outside
August 2003
Misty Blakesley |
Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water. |
Smithsonian
February 2004
Deborah Franklin |
Gas Guzzlers New research shows how microscopic diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and may help keep the planet from overheating |
Geotimes
March 2003
Greg Peterson |
Trading water pollution Advocates say water quality trading fits management like a glove, offering both flexibility and efficiency. Critics argue, however, that trading may create local water problems in rivers and restricts the public's participation in managing its water resources. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Ocean Budget Surges Under the fiscal year 2008 budget request, priority ocean projects would receive a budget increase totaling $143 million, countering the otherwise flat budget for earth science. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
IDB America
April 2008
Dan Drosdoff |
Barbados Priority: Protecting the Coastline Improvements and investments have succeeded in stabilizing the Barbados coastline, but the rehabilitation and shoreline protection process is continuous, and the possibilities of setbacks are a constant menace. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Frank T. Manheim |
U.S. Offshore Oil Industry: New perspectives on an old conflict A stalemate between environmentalists and industry has inhibited current U.S. offshore oil and gas leasing. Now, Norway -- a country with a very different environmental and offshore drilling history -- could shed light on how to move forward. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Robert S. Young |
The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves. |
